Mundo Cars drive down mondo fuel use

While our own drive to drastically improve car efficiency changes gears, there are of course plenty of other people trying to get the message across. One such group, Mundo Cars, isn't the new line of Slovakian automobiles it might appear to be, but a collaborative effort by several organisations working on transport issues. With groups like Friends of the Earth Europe and the Alliance against Urban 4x4s involved, the Mundo car has been paraded around Brussels to get the attention of MEPs who, in a few months, will be voting on the issue. But the car itself isn't real, it's an imaginary car brand designed to get people wondering why it seems so difficult to have minimum fuel efficiency standards for all cars. With rising fuel costs and general economic gloom, you'd think car makers would be falling over themselves to have the... [read full story]